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100+ awesome free and open source applications

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“Artweaver – http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e.
Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your
work. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a
wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic
as possible.

“OpenOffice – http://www.openoffice.org
It’s basically Microsoft Office so you need little else with this
installed. It has MS Office support (in both reading and writing)
so this fantastic suite is fully compatible.

“Wink – http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Wink is a freeware screen-capture and tutorial-creation program
written by Satish Kumar. It supports many features such as
input-based capture and text annotations. Navigation buttons can be
added to any presentation and the bitmaps for all presentation
controls can be edited. Wink also has multilingual support and can
be used in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish,
Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional
Chinese.

“Scribus – http://www.scribus.net/
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning
professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows
desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new
approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly
interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such
as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF
creation.”


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